Santoro Becomes New NJBA Chair, Dunphy Leaves

Bob Dunphy resigned this week as Chairman of the New Jersey Broadcasters Association. Dunphy, Market Manager for Clear Channel Tri-State, accepted a position as Senior VP/Station Operations for First Broadcasting of Dallas, TX. First owns stations all over the US, but none in New Jersey.  Due to the NJBA by-laws, Dunphy was forced to resign as Chair. He served in this position for just under a year. Moving up is Andy Santoro from 1^st Vice Chair to Chairman of the Board of Directors of the NJBA.  Santoro is a 30 year New Jersey Radio Vet. He is presently serving as Chief Operating Officer of Millennium Radio Group New Jersey and also overseeing New Jersey 101.5 FM. Moving up to 1^st Vice Chair is Elizabeth Christopherson, Executive Director of New Jersey Network. Both Charles McCreery of Clear Communications and Allen Lewicki of Star 99.1 FM, move up a position.  Robert McAllan of Press Communications joins the Executive Committee in the position of Treasurer. Lewicki becomes 2^nd Vice-Chair and McCreery gets the job of Secretary. Phil Roberts remains as President. 

New GM To Be Named At Press

Bob McAllan, President of Press Communications, announced the resignation of General Manager Frank Calderaro from the company. The Company owns a number of radio stations along the shore. Although a new GM has been selected, McAllan was not prepared to announce it this week. We do know that the new GM is from outside the state. 

Arbitron Meets With NJBA Board

The result, Nothing resolved. Arbitron suggests that they could provide Ocean County with meters, but not until the middle of 2008. They offered no pricing, even though the attendees suggested that they should be treated just like every other place in the country and be priced accordingly.  Arbitron said, “We’ll get back to you”. So another meeting will be scheduled during the middle of April, although the feeling in the room was that the meeting and the answers have to happen sooner, perhaps in March. 

Free Amber Alert Training

The AMBER Alert program has been credited with the recovery of more than 300 missing children.  Yet despite its many successes, confusion often surrounds the way these alerts are issued and distributed.   That's why the U.S. Department of Justice is sponsoring a series of one-day training sessions done by the University of South Carolina School of Journalism and Mass Communications.  Media, online editors, AMBER Alert coordinators and law enforcement work through training scenarios derived from actual AMBER cases at the Ifra Newsplex, USC's newsroom of the future .There is no charge for the training.  The Justice Department will pay 100% airfare or mileage, hotel, training, and meals during training. More info: contact Terri Moorer at 803-348-0445. 

The FAA has a new phone number to report tower problems: 631-471-7394.

Best of the Best deadline, Thursday, April 5, 2007!

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